UNC Asheville's Wild Ride

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Originally Posted by PayneTrain

I think a contributing factor to the issue was in NC they have 52 teams but effectively created 160 roster spots when they only needed 104. Teams were bound to gravitate to the 104 that were most convenient for them and Asheville is a pretty incredible city but not one near a lot of existing teams.

I think a lot of it has to do with promoting new teams as well. Western NC as a whole historically hasn't had nearly the amount of teams as the Central and Eastern areas in part because they would have to travel 3+ hours to get to the nearest competition. With the competition in Asheville we have seen a handful of new teams in the West and hopefully that will continue next year. All of that probably wouldn't have been able to happen if there wasn't enough interest in the Asheville competition.